Date/Time
6/1/2024
8:30 AM - 3:30 PM Pacific
8:30 AM - 3:30 PM Pacific
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Entertainment
Arts and Culture
Entertainment
Arts and Culture
Event Description
The Original Wasco County Courthouse is going public with the invitation to the June 1, 2024, Gorge Geology Tour. Hurry to sign up to be able to beat the crowd. We will have to cut off registrations when the bus is full. Here's the info:
GORGE GEOLOGY TOUR WITH LLOYD DeKAY
JUNE 1, 2024
Meet at Original Wasco County Courthouse (410 West 2nd Place) at 8:30 a.m.
Lloyd gives orientation presentation
Tour commences - 12 to 15 stops at sites of geological significance
No-host lunch at either Bingen-White Salmon or Hood River
Tour ends back at OWCC around 3:30 p.m.
Forms to return:...or return forms in person: The Original Courthouse opens for the summer season, Thursday, May 2. It will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays now through September.
Here is some addition information about the field trip and Lloyd DeKay, whose standing room only presentation at the OWCC Regional History Forum in February 2023 inspired sponsorship of the field trip.
The stunning and tranquil beauty of the Columbia River Gorge region belies a tumultuous geologic history. That history spans about 50 million years of massive volcanoes and fissure eruptions, huge forces bending and breaking the rock layers, catastrophic Ice Age Floods, landslides and earthquakes. In a 70 mile loop we'll visit stunning geologic evidence of that tumultuous geologic history. We'll see forests, lakes and swamps that were buried by massive lava flows, look at huge faults and folds that deformed the landscape. We'll imagine 1000 foot deep mud-choked floods remaking that landscape. We'll even see the rusty remnants and stand in the vent area of a volcanic eruption. When we're done you may never see the Gorge the same way again.
Lloyd DeKay is a retired geologist and president of the Columbia River Gorge Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute. He has a Master's Degree in Geological Oceanography and had a 27 year career in international oil exploration, working on projects in various parts of South America, Africa, SE Asia, and Europe while living in Houston, San Francisco, Nigeria and New Orleans. His first exposure to the Gorge was a 1976 temp job with the Corps of Engineers working on the Bonneville Dam second powerhouse, and that exposure led in part to his retirement to White Salmon in 2007. Since then he's had to learn about a whole new geological ralm as he's led field trips and given presentations about local geology on behalf of the Ice Age Floods Institute.
Location
Setting: In-Person
Beginning at Original Wasco County Courthouse and touring 12-15 stops of geological significance
410 West 2nd Place
The Dalles, OR 97058
UNITED STATES
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Beginning at Original Wasco County Courthouse and touring 12-15 stops of geological significance
410 West 2nd Place
The Dalles, OR 97058
UNITED STATES
click here for Google Maps
Contact Person
Original Wasco County Courthouse
(phone: 5035054121)
(phone: 5035054121)
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ORIGINAL WASCO COUNTY COURTHOUSE PRESENTS GORGE GEOLOGY TOUR WITH LLOYD DeKAY